Zhiwei rubbed her little hands together excitedly, wiped away the remaining Divine Sense imprint on the Storage Bag in one go, then turned the bag upside down and gave it a hard shake.
"Clatter—!"
A huge pile of multicolored items poured out like a small waterfall, piling up into a glittering little hill on the damp rock.
"Ah... somehow it doesn’t feel that exciting."
Zhiwei’s eyes widened on instinct at first, but she quickly came back to her senses,
and realized... she actually no longer felt that old rush of delight in her heart.
Unacceptable.
These past few days she’d found too many treasures in the Withered Wood Forest, her psychological threshold had risen.
After all,
no matter how you put it, Yang Qiu was only a Foundation Establishment Sixth-Layer Cultivator. He might be rich, but that was about it.
"Be careful, he might have left some kind of backup in his Storage Bag."
Zhiwei reminded her while checking Jin’er’s body.
"Mm..."
Zhiwei responded absentmindedly, listlessly kicking a White Bone Magical Artifact that had rolled to her feet with her little bare foot, clearly lacking interest.
In truth, there really were a lot of treasures in his Storage Bag.
But Zhiwei’s expectations had been too high beforehand. She’d thought this Yang Qiu was the number one prodigy of the Ten Thousand Puppet Sect, that he might even have Third Tier treasures on him...
Yet at a glance, aside from a small pile of a few hundred Middle Grade Spirit Stones and a few thousand Lower Grade Spirit Stones which were still pleasant to look at, the rest were mostly all sorts of eerie jars and bottles full of yin energy, several formation diagrams made of unknown Demon Beast hides, and a heap of corpse-refining materials reeking of a fishy stench.
"The big fat sheep shrank... these blackened bones and ragged cloth strips, Master definitely won’t like them." The little girl sighed, feeling like her fragile young heart had been deceived.
"Jiji..." (You girl, your tastes have all been spoiled by that bastard Chen Ye!)
The little white fox was doing somersaults atop the Spirit Stone pile; hearing this, it rolled its eyes.
By its rough estimate, these treasures were worth at least sixty thousand Spirit Stones!
Back then,
it had killed quite a few people in the Luoxiao Grotto Heaven, but those richer than Yang Qiu were very few.
"Ji... (And if you add in the treasures from the Withered Wood Forest before, these three little girls probably have close to a hundred thousand Spirit Stones on them now!)"
The little white fox muttered inwardly.
The treasures in the Withered Wood Forest were many,
but those of high status and rank had all kinds of tracking measures layered onto their Storage Bags. Back in the day, they were retrieved early on by their sects’ Golden Core elders.
Add to that the passage of years, which wore away Spirituality.
In the Withered Wood Forest, the treasures that remained were worth only forty to fifty thousand Spirit Stones.
Of course.
Forty to fifty thousand Spirit Stones was already a fortune.
A cheap Second Tier Upper Grade Magical Treasure was only seven or eight thousand Spirit Stones.
This stash of Spirit Stones could already buy four decent Second Tier Upper Grade Magical Treasures!
"What, you think this is the Hundred Treasures Pavilion in Hunyuan City? He’s a True Inheritor of the Ten Thousand Puppet Sect who majors in Corpse Puppets; of course most of what he carries are yin and baleful items... Still, those yin items really aren’t of much use to us."
Zhiwei shook her head helplessly. She walked over to the pile of spoils, lifted her pale hand.
A gentle surge of Spiritual Power swept out, clearing all those filthy materials to one side and putting them into an empty Storage Bag on their own.
"Even though we can’t use these materials, taking them back to the sect or the black market can net us a very considerable amount of cultivation resources. When Master refines certain eccentric Pills, she might use them as medicinal guides, so we can’t just throw them away."
"Ugh, but they’re not that useful either. If Qingzhi hadn’t successfully refined it, Master might still have been able to use these..."
Zhiwei sighed regretfully.
The bulk of the resources in Yang Qiu’s Storage Bag were actually these yin items and materials for refining Puppets.
After all, he was a Myriad Puppets Cultivator...
The most valuable things on Yang Qiu had been his Eight-Armed Resentful Corpse and his Infant Skull Puppet, but they’d already collapsed during the Magical Battle.
Sitting to one side, Jin’er’s eyes lit up at those words. She asked cautiously:
"Senior Sister, if you don’t need them... could you give them to Jin’er? If not, then never mind."
Zhiwei snorted with laughter, her big eyes curling into crescents:
"Jin’er! What are you talking about! These are our shared spoils; if you want them, just take them!"
She bounced over, picked up that separate Storage Bag, and handed it to Jin’er.
"Thank you, Senior Sister!" Jin’er clutched it like a treasured prize, face full of gratitude.
"But what do you want them for? Don’t tell me you want to refine Puppets too?"
Zhiwei was a little puzzled, muttering,
"Well... Jin’er used to be really interested in Puppets! Then let’s see if there’s any Secret Technique for Refining Puppets in Yang Qiu’s Storage Bag!"
Zhiwei said it and did it, and started rummaging through Yang Qiu’s Storage Bag.
She really did find quite a few books.
For example, the two Cultivation Techniques, "True Explanation of Dissolving into the Origin Puppet" and "Thirty-Six Aspects of Divine Refinement."
These two were both top-tier Cultivation Techniques of the Ten Thousand Puppet Sect; the former was used for refining Corpse Puppets, and the latter for refining General Puppets.
Besides that, there were some scattered Cultivation Techniques.
But those weren’t worth mentioning; a few of them could even be found in the Lingyin Sect’s Scripture Pavilion.
"Hm? It’s actually these two Cultivation Techniques..."
Zhiwei was surprised. It was said these two Techniques were part of the legacy left by the Songyang Sect; even in the entire Lingxu Realm, they were among the best Puppet Cultivation Techniques.
"Well? Well? Should we let Jin’er learn them? Jin’er happens to have Divine Fire, and the Celestial Burning Treasure Scroll is a legacy of Yunduan Mountain. Didn’t that True Inheritor of the Spirit Treasure Sect say their legacy really came from Yunduan Mountain! Maybe the Celestial Burning Treasure Scroll can be used for Artifact Refining too! If it can refine artifacts, it can refine Puppets!"
The little girl said excitedly.
She’d already planned it out: later she’d have Jin’er make a Puppet, so Qingzhi would have some company!
Of course, she absolutely would not allow Jin’er to make a Puppet identical to Master. After all, Master was Master; absolutely nothing else could replace her!